"An opinionated history of neuroscience, which argues that--due to the brain's complexity--neuroscientific theories have only captured partial truths, and therefore "neurophilosophy" is unlikely to be achieved"--
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Autorenporträt
Originally trained in visual neuroscience, M. Chirimuuta writes on the central ideas of the mind/brain sciences. She is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and the author of Outside Color (MIT Press).
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Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Part I 1 1 Introduction 3 2 Footholds 35 Part II 63 3 The Reflex Theory: Misleading Simplicity in Early Neuroscience 65 4 Your Brain Is Like a Computer 91 5 Ideal Patterns and “Simple” Cells 119 6 Why “Neural Repre sen ta tions”? 149 7 The Heraclitean Brain 183 Part III 207 8 Prediction, Comprehension, and the Limits of Science 209 9 Revisiting the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness 245 10 Cartesian Idealization 277 References 309 Index 355
Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Part I 1 1 Introduction 3 2 Footholds 35 Part II 63 3 The Reflex Theory: Misleading Simplicity in Early Neuroscience 65 4 Your Brain Is Like a Computer 91 5 Ideal Patterns and “Simple” Cells 119 6 Why “Neural Repre sen ta tions”? 149 7 The Heraclitean Brain 183 Part III 207 8 Prediction, Comprehension, and the Limits of Science 209 9 Revisiting the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness 245 10 Cartesian Idealization 277 References 309 Index 355
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